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The Hearth
There is this about a chill November: It makes one appreciate a fireside. And there is this about a hearth: it calls for small company, for companionship.
A hearth fire is a wasteful thing, in terms of economics. But so is much of the talk that generates beside an open fire, for it seldom settles big problems and it never pays the taxes. Much of it, like the heat from the logs on the andirons, goes up the chimney. But when you have said that, you have pretty well exhausted the case against the simmering log and the slow talk and the leisurely evening. And there still remains the reflected glow, which is its own excuse and needs no defense. . For there are times and occasions when quick heat and sharp words are among the world’s largest inefficiencies. Some things, and friendships and understanding are high among them, mature best by ember-light and in a small company. It is doubtful that mob rule was ever inspired by the slow gleam of a fireplace. The tinder of violence and fanaticism requires a bigger fire and larger arena. Philosophy. and faith are companions on the hearth, and ever have been.
There are beter ways to heat a house, true, but neither love nor friendship is concerned too much with economics. Man built a home around his fire, and there {he family grew, to his fireside he brought his 'friends,, and friendship grew, and understandingjrSo hearth became home, and homeJbecame heart. And it has little changed over the centuries. What greater friendship than understanding? What deeper understanding is there than that which stands, back to hearth, and faces outer cold and darkness? — The New York Times.
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